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Not all medical professionals wear white coats. Some go to work wearing a vest and leash. Children’s Health’s therapy dog program marks a milestone going into its 10th year.

Sometimes the best medicine isn’t a pill, it’s unconditional love. NBC 5’s Noelle Walker reports Children’s Health’s therapy dog program is marking a milestone and showing those interactons can improve patients’ outcomes.

A new Texas order is requiring hospitals to ask patients for their citizenship status starting Nov. 1. NBC 5’s Larry Collins has the details.

Starting Nov. 1, Texas hospitals are ordered to ask patients for their citizenship status. Immigration advocates are sounding the alarm as hospital systems work to understand and prepare for enforcing the new requirement.

The new law will require hospitals to ask patients about their citizenship status. NBC 5’s Alanna Quillen tells us the details.

A Connecticut family whose day-old infant died of a massive hemorrhage in February filed a lawsuit accusing a Greenwich Hospital delivery doctor of vacuuming the newborn’s head more than a dozen times during birth.

Local experts say there are only about 2,000 active cardiac surgeons in the country right now and in some other places, like Haiti, that number is zero. Tahera Rahman reports Baylor Scott & White Hospital is partnering with a charity organization to get Haitians the life-saving surgeries they need.

Big news for medical care in Dallas: A $100 million gift that will Children’s Health and UT Southwestern even further on its path towards a new $5 billion hospital campus designed for generations to come.

Big news for health care in Dallas in the way of a $100 million gift! NBC 5 health reporter Bianca Castro reports it will go toward Children’s Health and UT Southwestern plans for a new $5 billion dollar hospital campus, designed for generations to come.

Madisen Seidel and Kate Russell met in kindergarten. On Friday, they celebrated Med School Match Day together.

Heat-related illnesses are a serious matter. At Parkland Health’s emergency room, this year’s visits are nearly six times what they were last year.

Whether you’ve lived in North Texas for 20 years or 2 days the heat is no joke. Candace Sweat went digging through heat reports and found some numbers that are a little surprising. At Parkland Health’s emergency room; this year’s heat related visits are six times what they were last year. She talked with North Texans about how they’re handling...

A neonatal nurse in a British hospital has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others during a yearlong campaign of deception when she preyed on the vulnerabilities of premature and sick newborns as well as their anxious parents.

Brittany Mahomes shared that her and Patrick Mahomes’ 8-month-old son Bronze recently had a scary trip to the emergency room, which occurred not long after learning he has a severe peanut allergy.

Many hospitals say they’ve skipped, delayed or rationed medications, including critical cancer drugs, as the crisis across the country continues.